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Just noticed this tonight, but I probably have not played sounds while browsing freesound.org for the past couple of weeks -- not since I upgraded Firefox to 33.1. So I suspect it might be related to firefox or that javascript library that handles multiple platforms.

Symptom: I click the play icon, and it starts streaming down the sound, updating the display of the waveform showing that, and the icons all keep working. But there is no cursor bar showing where the playback position is, nor does any sound ever come out. In the console window is this error:

uncaught exception: Error in Actionscript. Use a try/catch block to find error.

Not very helpful, admittedly.

Meanwhile, firefox tells me it is downloading and update.... hmmm, maybe?

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Keith

Oh yeah, and shortly after, I reloaded a page, and suddenly it worked without error. But after playing 2 or 3 sounds, they all started to be interrupted with stutters.

Nothing unusual going on on my system, so I figure it's probably either Firefox itself or the Adobe Flash plugin that's broken. I've restarted firefox with the flash plugin set to "ask to activate", and it hasn't even asked, so maybe it isn't that.

FYI: no further problems with this after upgrading to Firefox 33.1.1.

"nevermind"

I'm a bit confused with my problem. As mentioned in this thread, the sound doesn't play for me when I click on anything. All the sounds used to work, but about a week or 2 ago?..I don't get any sound when clicking on samples.

I don't have Firefox, at least I don't think so. Hell, I don't even know what Firefox is. I haven't downloaded anything that would make changes to my computer. Any ideas as to what might be the problem?

Same problem. Half the sounds (sometimes more) on the search page don't play. Even when you click that sound and go to the sound's page, the sound does not play back. Like the OP said, the locator moves, and the waveform displays, but no sound.

Check your browser's "Console" or "Error Console" or whatever to see what sort of error messages you might find there. I posted mine in the OP, but like I said, I haven't seen it again since upgrading Firefox. I don't even know what "Actionscript" is supposed to be. Is that Flash?

I have a similar problem at my end. The "play" button changes to "pause" when clicked, but nothing happens afterwards. My error console says the following:


GET https://www.freesound.org/data/previews/248/248373_4556350-lq.mp3 [HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content 515ms]
Media resource https://www.freesound.org/data/previews/248/248373_4556350-lq.mp3 could not be decoded.


When I go to the resource directly (http://www.freesound.org/data/previews/248/248373_4556350-lq.mp3), I get a weird error message:

http://i.imgur.com/3pNgHml.png

This happens for every sound I play. I've tried the site in Opera, and even though I don't get any errors in the console, nothing is playable. Everything works fine on Chrome though.

System: Windows 8.1, Firefox 33.1.1, Opera 26.

Hi. We upgraded the library that is used for the player. It is supposed to work better, but Firefox seems to behave different from other browsers with respect to flash. Please clean your browser cache and if it still fails report your OS, firefox version and flash version (if you have it installed). This is shown as "Shockwave Flash plug-in" in Tools>Extensions in Firefox. Thanks!

gerard

FYI: I haven't noticed any difference whether Flash plugin is enabled or disabled. The sounds I've played back have the mime type audio/mpeg, so I can't imagine why there would be a "video" related message as reported above. For me, moving from 33.1.0 to 33.1.1 correlated to fixing the problem, but I don't know if I might have done just as well to simply restart Firefox to clear wasted memory usage (in which case, I may yet encounter the problem again). YMMV.

I can't find any such controls next to any sounds recently for some reason. Internet Explorer 9 with Windows Vista.

I think I've got the same problem as matt, I can't see any of the previews - using Chromium.

No entries are getting logged in the console when I try to play it.
None of the buttons (repeat, waveform to spectrogram, play, stop, the ruler), when pressed, have any effect on the console. I tried clicking on the title of a sound on the search page to get to that individual sound's page, and that entry gets logged, but when I hit the play button, nothing.

Win 7 SP1, Chrome 39.0.2171.71

Similar result (ie no logs) when I click the buttons in some other sounds that do play.

Gerard, it is beginning to look as though the use of the newer library version must be rolled back.

Deleting my browsing history solved my problem of no sound playing.

Thanks for the help

Seems to be working with me at the moment. Will monitor the situation.